>hello
>I was picking up some old nubus equipment from a consultor who no longer
>need the equipment, so I thought I'd find out what the parts were.
>The consultor gave me what he thought was a thicknet ethernet card, which
>is apparently junk (old) - nothing more than I expected.  It's free
>equipment, anyway.
>Well, that card turned out to be a video card, and this is how netbsd
>looked at it during startup:
>--cut here--
>macvid0 at nubus0: Sigma Designs L-View
>macvid0: 832 x 600, monochrome
>--cut here--
>Well, apparently the NetBSD system seems to recognize it, and that can't
>really be a bad thing. One of the two problems I currently see is that the
>nubus card has a 9-pin video connector - two rows in trapezoidal shape, one
>with 5 pins and one with 4. I never have seen such a video connector (not
>surprising - I don't have any experience with this). I called up some local
>computer stores and they never heard of them either. What kind of connector
>is this?

It's for the Sigma L-View monitor. There's also the Multimode version. I
have one (presently out of operation, bad HV supply I think). The monitor
was capable of six different resolutions, all the way up to 1600 by 1200 or
so, monochrome. I don't think the card is of much value w/out the monitor,
as you guessed, the video connector isn't standard. I may have the pinout
laying around somewhere. Sigma is out of business now I believe. (Their
customer service, or rather lack of it, probably helped put them under)

Chris


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